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‘Hell yeah’: the New Yorkers in AOC’s district excited about Trump

Ahead of the inauguration, Republicans believe the tide is turning – even in the city’s most diverse neighborhoods

The Guardian - US

Who was Juan de Oñate, ruthless conquistador whose statues have inspired two shootings?

Spanish conqueror is celebrated by many of Hispanic origin, but reviled by indigenous Americans

The Independent UK

A Sanctuary for Sounds

A well-traveled journalist reveals world music to Austin via a unique new series of live concert performances.

Texas Observer

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Conjunto music enjoys a resurgence, bridging a divide between old and new musicians

Known for its thumping backbeat, vocals and shimmering accordion riffs, Conjunto has been around for more than a century. Now more young musicians are picking up the beat.

WEKU

Eliza Batman, the Irish convict reinvented as 'Melbourne's founding mother', was both colonised and coloniser on two violent frontiers

On June 8 1835, 188 years ago today, pastoralist John Batman crossed the Bass Strait and arrived on the shores of Naarm (now Melbourne city), on Kulin lands. His Irish-born convict wife, Eliza Batman, and their seven daughters arrived at Port Phillip the following year.

The Conversation

Charlatans, False Prophets and Flimflammers

A veteran NPR reporter tells all about his misadventures covering religion in America during the rise of Christian nationalism.

Texas Observer

The blues returns to Mississippi's Parchman Prison Farm

Mississippi's Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons. The University of Mississippi has introduced college-level classes to offer inmates education - including the blues.

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Clermont faces being left with no permanent GP, despite $500k recruitment package

In Clermont, the last standing GP says it's been in crisis for years. Now Sarah McLay says she's facing an impossible choice — the town or her children.

ABC News

Hurricane Ian highlighted the vulnerabilities of older mobile homes

Mobile homes built before 1994 can't withstand the kind of ferocious winds of a major hurricane. In Florida, there are thousands of these older homes that crumble during big storms like Ian

WEKU

The National Park Service expands its African-American history sites

The National Park Service is trying to include more Black history into the story of America. Some of the proposed sites are painful, others are controversial.

WEKU

Texas' abortion law led some to get abortion pills in Mexico, with grim consequences

Since Texas passed its anti-abortion law, more and more women have been getting abortion pills at unregulated pharmacies in Mexican border towns — where they are freely sold without a prescription.

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